So the Rufus persistent storage feature should work with Pop!_OS 19.10 for instance, among others. The Rufus 3.7 release notes also mention that the new persistent storage feature may work with other Linux distributions too, ' as long as they use a Debian-like or Ubuntu-like method, and, in the case of Ubuntu-like, if they use casper with the #1489855 bugfix'. It's worth noting that this works not only with Ubuntu 19.10, but also Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie, etc. The bug fix might land in Ubuntu 18.04 later on, so it will probably be included with the upcoming Ubuntu 18.04.4 release, expected on February 6th, 2020. Even though the Ubuntu 18.04.3 ISO was released after August 1st, 2019, it does not include this bug fix, so creating a persistent storage Live USB of Ubuntu 18.04.3 (or Linux Mint 19.*) using Rufus 3.7 and newer won't work. The reason for this is a bug that caused persistence on casper-rw partitions to break when the mount sequence order was changed, which was only recently fixed.įor now, this bug fix has only landed in Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine. BUT as far as Ubuntu is concerned, the persistence feature only works with ISOs of Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine and newer. The Rufus 3.7 release notes mention that with this release, the persistent partition support is finalized (so it's not longer experimental) for Debian and Ubuntu. Related: How To Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB On Linux Using WoeUSB. n a large Australian kangaroo, Macropus rufus, the male of which has a reddish coat Collins English Dictionary Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014. But it doesn't support every Linux distribution out there. Macropus rufus synonyms, Macropus rufus pronunciation, Macropus rufus translation, English dictionary definition of Macropus rufus. With the latest Rufus 3.7 beta though, the persistent partition feature works (I tested it with the latest daily build of Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine). This application is able to create persistent live drives that work in both UEFI (MBR or GPT) and BIOS mode, with casper-rw being used for the persistent storage partition, so it can have a size of more than 4GB.Įxperimental persistent partitions support was first added to this Windows bootable Live USB creation tool with version 3.6, but it didn't seem to work properly, as in my test, any changes made to the Live USB did not persist between reboots. It can be used to create not only bootable Windows drives from ISO files or disk images, but also create bootable Linux USB drives from Windows.

Rufus is a popular free and open source graphical tool to create bootable USB drives from Windows. Starting with Rufus version 3.7, the application has finalized the persistent partition support for Debian and Ubuntu, allowing users to create persistent storage live USBs of recent Debian Live ISOs, and Ubuntu Live ISOs created after 1st of August, 2019.

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